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Justin Timberlake joins ‘Bad Teacher’
Posted on March 2nd, 2010 with no comments for this entry yet...
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Justin Timberlake has nabbed the coveted role of the male lead in Bad Teacher, the Cameron Diaz comedy Jake Kasdan is directing for Columbia. Molly Shannon and Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family) are also joining the cast.
The script, by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, follows a foul-mouthed, gold-digging seventh-grade teacher who, after being dumped by her boyfriend, sets her sights on a colleague (Lucy Punch) who is dating a substitute teacher, who also is the scion of a watch fortune.
Jason Segel was cast in the supporting role of a gym teacher, with John Michael Higgins slotted as the principal, but the studio has spent the better part of the new year looking though class photos trying to find its leading man. John Krasinski, Joel McHale, Timothy Olyphant, Guy Pearce, Adam Scott and relative newcomer Cheyenne Jackson were in the mix for table reads and other tests.
Jimmy Miller is producing the feature, which starts filming this month in Los Angeles.
This will be very interesting to see and a guaranteed source for speculation, due to Cameron and Justin’s past. What do you think of Justin Timberlake joining the movie?